NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO

NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389933
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO
Statutory Address:: NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389933
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO
Statutory Address 1:: NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NO 5 AND ATTACHED GAZEBO, 5, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 85480 55730

Details

WORCESTER

SO8555NW LANSDOWNE CRESCENT 620-1/9/370 (North East side) 05/04/71 No.5 and attached gazebo Formerly Listed as: LANSDOWNE CRESCENT No.5)

GV II

House. c1835-40 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick, hipped slate roof with wide eaves. Left end-stack in painted brick with oversailing detail and pots. Timber oriel window with wrought-iron balcony. Tented verandah on supports of wrought and cast-iron. Double-depth plan with entrance hall and staircase to centre rear. 3 storeys with cellar. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes fluted pilasters rising from first-floor sill band with corbel brackets to outer pair of pilasters; pilaster capitals have decorated frieze with foliated scrolled-shell motif. Stucco lined to represent ashlar. Second-floor windows are 4/4; first-floor right is 8/8; all in plain reveals with sills. First-floor left is later canted oriel window with 4-pane transom lights over pair of 6-pane side-hung casements with similar single casements to the returns; carved quatrefoil frieze with crude scrolled parapet; Ornamental balcony in scrolled heart and anthemion design. Centre ground-floor is 2/2 margin glazed sash extending to ground level; to either side is a 2-pane French window with overlight; all in plain reveals. Full-width tented verandah with slender support frames stiffened by scrolls and anthemion motifs. Returns are also in painted stucco with a band at first-floor sill level to rear half only. Left-return has external stack to rear terminating at eaves level. Set back on the left-return is a later single-storey range in painted brick under a hipped slate roof; fenestration is side-hung casements under segmental arches and C20 patio doors. Rear elevation is painted brick with narrow projecting central section, this contains replacement fully-glazed door with 4-centred arch head, top ash of 6/6 windows above to first- and second-floor have similar arched head and traceried glazing bars; otherwise conventional 6/6 and 8/8. INTERIOR: retains some original features including panelled doors, architraves, skirtings and cornices; the staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: At the left end of the facade is an irregular six-sided single-storey grotto with pitched lead roof surmounted by a finial. 3 of the faces have a 2-light window under 4-centred arch head; lights are either 4-pane or lattice-leaded, the latter includes some coloured glass; paired entrance doors to right have margin glazing with flush-beaded panel below; fanlight with 4-centred arch head and similar arch tracery glazing bars. The interior has fitted boarded seating and is decorated with sea-shells arranged in a variety of patterns mainly floral. HISTORICAL NOTE: House of similar design to No.6 (qv) Lansdowne Crescent. Because of their elevated position, vehicular access to these houses could only be from the east via Lansdowne Crescent Lane; this introduced a degree of formality to what would normally be the rear elevation. The 1886 O.S. map shows Nos 10 and 14 (qqv) as exceptions with carriage drives from the west off Lansdowne Crescent. Nos. 1-15 (consecutive) and 17 and 18 Lansdowne Crescent (qqv) form a good group of listed buildings comparing well with other developments of this period in Worcester such as Britannia Square, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 38, 335; JM Knowles: Lansdowne Crescent Worcester to 1900: Worcester: 1988-).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488884
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Knowles, J M , Lansdowne Crescent, Worcester, to 1900, (1988)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 38 335

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.